 Greetings friends! This is Survival Doc. Today I'm going to talk about growing a few plants that you might not think about. This is my ginger plant. You can see I've got it growing in a large pot here. Now I grew this ginger from ginger roots from the roots that I bought at the grocery store. I bought some roots at the Whole Foods Market because they were organically grown as opposed to roots that you might buy in some grocery store. All you have to do is just break off a few pieces of roots, plant them in soil, and they grow. And then when it comes time to harvest it, you just dig up the roots and you've got ginger. Here's some aloe vera. My idea is that if I'm growing something it's either going to be used for food or for medicine or for some other purpose. I don't grow plants strictly as ornamentals. Of course aloe vera I've done other videos on aloe vera in the past. It has a lot of medicinal value. It's good for digestive problems and of course it's also good externally. It's known as a burn plant because it is good for burns. These plants right here are airplane plants. They're also called spider plants because looking at it from the side there they kind of look like spider legs. Now I'm growing them outside because we're in the summer here. In the winter time I will move these indoors and the reason that I'm growing these is these plants, the spider plant or airplane plant is about the best plant that there is for removing toxins from the air. Here's a larger one over here and another large one. These plants are excellent for growing indoors to purify your air. Here's another aloe vera plant. This one is quite large. This is my pepper plant but the reason we're looking at this is not for the pepper plant but for these little guys growing down here. These are turmeric root grown in a similar fashion as the ginger that I showed you. Just break off little pieces of the turmeric root. You buy the whole root at the grocery store. Break off little pieces, plant them in the soil and you get turmeric plants. When it comes time to harvest you can dig it up and you have turmeric roots. Turmeric is a great herb for many purposes. It has great medicinal value but also has great culinary value. Turmeric is one of the most important herbs there is for preserving meat. If you want to smoke your meat or you want to dry your meat you can add some spices to the meat to make it keep better. These plants here are Jerusalem artichokes. We can get a good shot there. Jerusalem artichokes are great survival food. You eat the root, the tuber. Here's the main part of my garden. There's some more stevia growing there. I've dumped some manure in there getting ready to tell that into the garden. My greenhouse frame. I've got the plastic. I'm getting ready to put the plastic on the greenhouse so I can extend my growing season. Here's my tomato plants winding down. Here are the plants winding down. Lots of squash, zucchini over here. Okra, zucchini, squash, bean plants. What's left of my swiss chard. Here's some fruit trees that I planted here when we moved in a year ago. It's apricot. Over here we have apple. Most trees take three or four years before they start producing fruit. An exception is fig. Fig will produce fruit after a year. This is a Chicago fig. It's a cold hardy fig that I can grow here in Missouri. This is the first year for this fig tree. I've gotten lots of figs off of it for such a small tree. Delicious Chicago figs. Really good figs. Here's a peach tree. Here's another little strip of my garden here. Some herbs, lettuce. These are young plants. A little bit more stevia. I put down this black cloth to keep the weeds down. I don't like weeding. As a result, a lot of times weeds take over my garden. This year I'm trying something new with this ground cloth. I'm watering this with a soaker hose which runs underneath it. There's some basil. More basil. More young fruit trees. Apple, pear. Another one of those tires. This is a cherry tomato plant. We've got lots of cherry tomatoes off of this plant this year. It's winding down. We're approaching the fall here so it's winding down. But this plant did real well. This is again putting a tire in a spot here next to my drive. I can't really put the garden here but I can extend my growing area with these tire planters around here. Here's a little catnip herb that I put right here in this shady corner. I'm trying to see how it would grow in this spot. It seems to have done fairly well. Here's a little persimmon tree. I bought these from the conservation department. By buying 25 of these little trees, I got them for 50 cents a piece. I planted these little persimmon trees all throughout my wooded five acres here. You'll find spots where they would get enough sun to grow and fruit. Not only do I like persimmons but persimmons are a favorite food for deer. If you plant fruit trees like this on your property, what you will find is that the deer will come through your property quite often. When hunting season comes, you'll have plenty of deer to choose from. This is part of my rain collection system that I talked about in another video. What do you do when your rain collection system is on lower ground than your garden? You see my garden way up there next to the road. How do you get the water to go uphill? Here's the solution. A little four horsepower swimming pool pump. A little pump I bought at an estate sale for not very much money at all. I said four horsepower, I meant one quarter. One quarter horsepower swimming pool pump, which works quite well at getting that water up the hill here to my water storage up there on top of the hill, which I connect to my gravity feed soaker hose watering system for my garden up there. Here's the rabbit tree. I have other videos on YouTube that I did about growing rabbits for food and a little shelter that I built off the side of my garage. This is Survival Duck, reminding you to be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced.